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Transcript for Barlow, Walker, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake, 26 vols., 14:48

We started for Utah in the spring of 1861 but had quite a time getting to Florence where the saints were camped. We had through tickets on the trains and boats but when we arrived at St. Joseph, Mo. we found that the war had begun and many of the railroad bridges were burned. We then had to take another route and finally reached Florence. After a short stay there we left for Utah in Captain Horne's Company.

At Deer Creek station in Iowa my mother died from exposure, through washing clothes in cold water and caring for her sick baby who had died two weeks before and was buried by the wayside. His name was Abraham. The grief-stricken father with four small children continued on the journey. I was about ten, my sister Elizabeth and brothers George and Edward, younger.